Jay delivers masterclasses on a wide variety of music-related subjects, most recently for the London Mayor’s office at their “Gigs” day in Trafalgar Square, London.

BIOGRAPHY

Jay’s wide experience in the music industry spans nearly 4 decades and includes almost every aspect of musical life, from playing guitar with artists including Roger Waters, Mike Oldfield, Suede, Scott Walker, Westernhagen and many more to being signed as an artist to a major label; from writing music for TV and Films to setting up his own label and publishing company: from playing gigs in venues ranging from wine-bars to football stadiums, running his own studio and demonstrating high-tech music technology for Roland, Digidesign, and more.

Jay was recently a judge on the London Underground panel awarding licenses to buskers and delivers masterclasses on stagecraft and songwriting for the London Mayors Office.

Jay owns a recording studio on Mersea Island on the North Essex coast (driftwoodstudio.uk). This is a bespoke private recording facility for music production, tuition, etc. Recent projects include

producing a new recording of Steve Reich’s “Electric Counterpoint,”

co-writing with artists including Tony Shevlin, Nina Ferro,

library music composition/production in genres including electronica, rocktronica, Western Swing,

Jay’s experience as a teacher includes course-writing and teaching at all levels (including B.Mus) and delivering masterclasses on various aspects of music composition, production and delivery, stagecraft, performance,etc.

From 2013-2015 Jay was Deputy and Acting Programme Leader on the BA (Hons) Songwriting course at the ICMP, running all aspects of the programme while the PL was on maternity leave. Jay was involved in the QAA/HER review process and in the forefront of implementing the Virtual Learning Environment at the college.

2008 – 2016 Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. As member of guitar and songwriting faculty Jay has delivered on BMus, BA Creative Musicianship, BA Songwriting,, Higher Diploma and Diploma programmes. Jay wrote degree-level courses on Music Technology, Live Technology, Creating Music, Music for New Media, Showcase Workshop, Digital Audio Recording, Performance Project Workshop.